Am 05.05.2012 03:05, schrieb Bill Cole: > Systems can live a long time without drive replacements.
but only if you do not permanently spin them up and down power managment is the dead of a drive i have here disks with > 35.000 uptime you can be sure with "power-managment" they would still be dead try it out: spin down a drive running some years and you have a real good change that the next spin up is the final one > Spinning rust with power management firmware is not going > to be rare in running systems until at least 5 years and should be the first to get disabled in the real world the power you save in spin down a disk is meaningless in any way, the power for produce a new drive because yours died by permanently spin up/down is much higher and the cost of the new drive also compared with let the drive run
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